There's more that you can do to your photos than just adjust their photoquality here in the Quick Edit workspace.You can get really creative with your photos using the effects,the textures, and the frames that come with the Quick Edit workspace.To see the effects that you can apply to a photo,click the Effects button in the taskbar at the bottom of the Quick Edit workspace.And that populates the column on the right with a series of categories of effects.If I scroll down, you can see all the categories that Elements currently has.

Now I say categories, because each one of these items is not just a single effect.It's a whole set of effects.If I go back up for example to the first effect tint andI click it, that apply's that tint to the photo.At the same time it opens a panel, where you can see variations on the tint effect.So that gives me a total of five different effects.The copper tint,the sepia tint, the sienna type tint which I can apply by clicking on it.I think I'm going to go back and apply the copper tint.

I like that with this photo.Now, I could stop here and just save this in a version set with the original photo,but I want to try applying a texture on top of this effect.So I'll go to the Task Bar andI'll click on the Textures icon, and here I'm going tochoose the Scratch texture which creates a kind of a distressed look on this photo.I can save at this point but I want to go even further.I want to add an old fashioned frame to this photo on top of the effect andthe texture.So I'll click the Frames button in the task bar.

Here I'm going to choose this aged frame,clicking that icon applies the frame to the photo.Notice that there is a bounding box representing the photo inside the frame.If I click inside that bounding box, I can reposition the photo in the frame.If I click near that bounding box, that brings up a scale slider that Ican use to make the photo larger or smaller inside the frame.And then I can click inside the enlarged photo and reposition it again.When I'm satisfied, I'll click the green check mark.

Now I can also can scale andreposition the entire image, meaning the frame and the photo together.To do that, I'll make sure that the Move tool is selected in the tool bar,as it is automatically when I'm working with frames and that the showbounding box option is checked down in the tool options for the Move tool.Then I'll click near the outside of the image, andthen I'll click again on the frame.Now this is a different bounding box.If I click and drag one of the corners of the bounding box,that scales the entire image, frame and photo together.

I can move outside of that corner.My cursor changes to a curved arrow.And I can drag to rotate the frame and the photo.And then I can click inside of the bounding box anddrag to position the whole thing on the canvas.When I'm satisfied, I'll click the green check mark.And if I want to see the results without that bounding box, I'll come down tothe tool options for the move tool and I'll uncheck show bounding box.And there's my result.At this point, I would save the image in a version set with the original just as Ishowed you how to do in preceding movies about the Quick Edit workspace.

So I think you can see how creative you can get with the multiple variations oneffects, with textures, and with frames here in the Quick Edit workspace.

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9/24/2014

Photoshop Elements 13, the less expensive version of Photoshop, is ideal for casual photographers who want to achieve professional results. In this course, author Jan Kabili introduces the photo organizing, editing, and sharing features you'll use most. She covers importing, tagging, and finding photos with the Organizer, and explains how to use each of the editing workspaces—Instant Fix, Quick Edit, and Expert Edit—to make photo corrections, retouch blemishes, adjust lighting and color, reduce noise, and process raw photos. The final chapter offers creative ways to share photos with Elements: via Revel mobile albums, slideshows with music and motion, and Facebook.